Loving Difficult People

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you, — read the full passage →

and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife, — read the full passage →

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

`For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers the same?

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger. — read the full passage →

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;

`Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy; — read the full passage →

and all--as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'

`Ye heard that it was said: Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth; — read the full passage →

The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it--shame, And a reprover of the wicked--his blemish. — read the full passage →

and--if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them;

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength--this <FI>is<Fi> the first command;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; — read the full passage →

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

`Ye may not give that which is <FI>holy<Fi> to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned--may rend you.

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

The fool--in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

let all your things be done in love.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek His face continually.

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you, — read the full passage →

`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;

One acquainted with knowledge is sparing his words, And the cool of temper <FI>is<Fi> a man of understanding. — read the full passage →

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle <FI>you<Fi> ;

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

be strong and courageous, fear not, nor be terrified because of them, for Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> He who is going with thee; He doth not fail thee nor forsake thee.'

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves-- — read the full passage →

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us; — read the full passage →

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually, — read the full passage →

see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

`And whenever ye may stand praying, forgive, if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your trespasses;

`Happy the peacemakers--because they shall be called Sons of God.

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

And Jesus said to him, `If thou art able to believe! all things are possible to the one that is believing;'

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil, — read the full passage →

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart, — read the full passage →

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

All things do without murmurings and reasonings,

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged,

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

The love doth never fail; and whether <FI>there be<Fi> prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;